Where: Portugal (37.0° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 25.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed Late Quaternary marine deposits. AGE: Pleistocene. No basis for age given in text, but presumably is based on macrofaunal biostratigraphy and stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Succession comprises cemented and bored carbonate sands, overlaind by 0.5 m beach sands with concentrations of shell debris.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone and shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Callapez & Ferreira Soares
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Callapez & Ferreira Soares, c. 1990's. REPOSITORY: Housed in the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Coimbra (DCTUC).
Primary reference: P. Callapez and A. Ferreira Soares. 2000. Late Quaternary warm marine mollusks from Santa Maria (Azores) paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic considerations. Ciencias da Terra 14:313-322 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122244: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Myoforceps aristata" = Lithophaga aristata
"Myoforceps aristata" = Lithophaga aristata Dillwyn 1817 mussel | |
"Chlamys distorta" = Talochlamys pusio
"Chlamys distorta" = Talochlamys pusio Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona Poli 1795 clam | |
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Ervilia castanea Montagu 1803 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Ovatella (Mysotella) myosotis Draparnaud 1805 snail | |
"Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides
"Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle | |
Alvania cimicoides, Alvania cancellata, Zebina vitrea, Cingula cingillus, Manzonia unifasciata, Rissoa similis
Alvania cimicoides Forbes 1844 snail
Alvania cancellata da Costa 1778 snail
Zebina vitrea Adams 1854 snail
Cingula cingillus Montagu 1803 snail
Manzonia unifasciata Dautzenburg 1889 snail
Rissoa similis Scacchi 1836 snail | |
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma, "Coralliophila meyendorffi" = Coralliophila meyendorffii
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
"Coralliophila meyendorffi" = Coralliophila meyendorffii Calcara 1845 murex snail | |
Gibberula sp. Swainson 1840 snail | |
Conus ermineus Born 1778 cone shell | |
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia), Mangelia costata
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia) Loven 1846 snail
Mangelia costata Donovan 1803 snail | |
"Mitrella broderipii" = Mitrella broderipi
"Mitrella broderipii" = Mitrella broderipi Sowerby 1844 snail | |
Cantharus variegatus Gray 1839 true whelk | |
Charonia lampas Linnaeus 1758 triton | |
Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell | |
Monophorus perversus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Fossarus ambiguus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bittium reticulatum da Costa 1778 cerith snail | |
Jujubinus exasperatus Pennant 1777 top snail
Jujubinus striatus Linnaeus 1767 top snail
Calliostoma zizyphinum Linnaeus 1758 top snail | |
Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus 1758 abalone | |
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin 1791 limpet |